Marilyn
DeLuca, of Londonderry N.H., also said Sanders is “the only candidate
out there” with integrity. And she wasn’t exactly enthralled by
Madeleine Albright and Gloria Steinem’s goofy arguments that women are obligated to back Clinton.
“They’re irrelevant,” DeLuca said. “Their time has come and gone.”
“I have two daughters in their twenties,” she added, “and they were so angry when they heard that.”
[. . .]Young women voters who spoke with The Daily Beast outside of polls shared their sentiments: that Steinem and Albright only energized the young women who back Bernie.
Gloria and Albright were ridiculous.
"TV: Women and Power" (Ava and C.I., THE THIRD ESTATE SUNDAY REVIEW):
For every Cher, Madonna or Janet Jackson owning their power with aplomb there are so many more of us struggling.
And that brings up the other moment from last week, the shameful and embarrassing moment.
Oh, Gloria Steinem, please go away.
Just go away.
The woman went on hideous Bill Maher's hideous talk show.
Why?
Because she was still confused from her heavily applauded moment on Stephen Colbert's Comedy Central show years ago -- the one where she made an embarrassing spectacle of herself.
She did much more damage this go round.
How so?
Gloria attacked transgendered people early on.
She never really apologized for it until recently when the online world (including us) began making a big deal out of her bigotry.
Let's be really clear that before the online world, Gloria got away with anything and was never held accountable.
She and her cadre defended her and attacked critics instead of responding to criticism.
When she finally began addressing her historic bigotry, she tried to say she was misunderstood (she wasn't) before acknowledging (finally) that she was wrong.
She played it as a thing of the past.
So imagine the horror to see Bill Maher make sneers at Caitlin Jenner for who she was and, instead of addressing the bigotry, there was Gloria joining in with a swipe at Martine Rothblatt (born Martin Rothblatt).
In her revisionist 2013 essay for THE ADVOCATE, Gloria at least had the good sense to type, "I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned."
Yet there she was joining Bill Maher's mocking of Caitlin Jenner by mocking Martine Rothblatt.
Then there was her ridiculous homophobia and sexism.
Young women, she insisted, were supporting Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton because they were trying to hook up with men ("When you're young, you're thinking, 'Where are the boys? The boys are with Bernie'.").
Excuse us?
Young women don't include lesbians (or the always overlooked bisexuals)?
Her hetero-normative assumptions and privilege were on full display.
And how insulting to straight women to insist that they are going to make their decision on who to support for president based on hormonal urges.
That insult?
It really goes to the failure that is Gloria Steinem.
Feminism, second wave, was moving forward with strength and purpose when Little Gloria shows up and refuses to stand up, time after time. You can see Germaine Greer's "McGovern, the big tease" (HARPER'S, October 1972) and Vernoice Geng's "Requiem for the women's movement" (HARPER'S, November 1976) for starters.
Or you can just note that the strong and vocal Redstockings were silenced and attacked for standing up to Gloria (and noting her CIA connections), that 'feminist' Gloria used personal connections to silence the feminist group.
But mainly what you need to note is Gloria never shuts the f**k up.
At the age of 35, she publicly positioned herself as a feminist.
And good for her.
But within three years, she was battling with Betty Friedan to be the leader of the feminist movement -- and, yes, getting others to fight your battles is battling with Betty Friedan.
Betty was sidelined, too old to be the leader anymore, and Gloria filled the vacuum.
At 51, Betty was judged too old and 38-year-old Gloria assumed leadership.
And in the decades since, she has insisted she wanted to see young leaders rise up.
But she's done nothing to help that ever happen.
She's presented herself as the leader of feminism.
She's certainly the leader of the victim faction.
But at 81, she refuses to let go.
She refuses to step aside.
She and her cohorts forced Betty out when Betty was 30 years younger than Gloria is today.
And why won't Gloria step down?
Because she doesn't respect young women.
That's what came across loud and clear in her embarrassing conversation with Bill Maher.
Gloria came to power via character assassination.
She stood by while her cohorts attacked Betty Friedan.
She could have stopped it but she didn't.
And, in fact, she honestly encouraged it.
Prior to her crowning herself a leader, second wave feminism made huge strides on reproductive rights.
Once Gloria's a leader, it's victim, victim, victim.
There's no more standing up and demanding, there's settling for crumbs and watching Democratic members of Congress (and the Supreme Court) chip away at our rights.
Her long tenure of leadership is notable for one thing: The erosion of women's rights.
Gloria never really led any challenge to the system.
She whined.
She begged people to vote for the Democratic Party.
That's really all she's ever done.
She's weak and she's weakened feminism.
Worst of all, she's refused to step aside.
We loved Molly Yard and we love Patricia Ireland but if either woman had attempted to turn their tenure as President of NOW into a lifetime appointment, we would have objected.
The same way we object to Gloria Steinem's refusal to step aside and let other women come to the foreground.
Gloria's victim approach goes to the fact that she refuses to own her power.
She doesn't believe women have real power.
Which is why, in her book REVOLUTION FROM WITHIN, the best she can offer is a dream of a secret and safe room where women can meet to whisper to one another what needs to be done.
She also doesn't trust power.
Which is why she hijacks the media and refuses to share the spotlight or, better yet, surrender it.
At 81-years-old, she's really not fit to be the face of feminism.
And if anyone ever doubted that, they just needed to catch her brief moment with Bill Maher last week where Gloria managed to spout and sport bigotry towards LGBTs and all young women.
Women have had a strange relationship with power. It's something we all need to work on. Part of owning our power is demanding accountability from leaders and not looking away when they openly express bigotry.
Ava and C.I. said it all. Gloria's big mouth probably cost Hillary votes.
"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):
Tuesday, February 9, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, Canada
announces when they'll leave Barack's bombing campaign, Ramadi is
finally liberated (all these weeks after it was first proclaimed
liberated), the voters of New Hampshire overwhelming choose Bernie over
Hillary, and much more.
Today, the US government continued its bombing of Iraq in US President Barack Obama's efforts to bring peace to Iraq. The US Defense Dept claimed/bragged/announced:
Strikes in Iraq
Coalition forces used rocket artillery and attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft to conduct 18 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:
-- Near Baghdadi, seven strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and three ISIL staging areas, denied ISIL access to terrain, and destroyed two ISIL rockets, an ISIL weapons cache, an ISIL front-end loader, an ISIL heavy machine gun, and an ISIL vehicle.
-- Near Huwayjah, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit.
-- Near Fallujah, a strike destroyed an ISIL-used bridge.
-- Near Mosul, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed five ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL mortar tube, and an ISIL vehicle.
-- Near Qayyarah, two strikes struck an ISIL logistics facility and destroyed four ISIL fighting positions.
-- Near Ramadi, three strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units, denied ISIL access to terrain, and destroyed three ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL staging area, and two ISIL boats.
-- Near Sultan Abdallah, a strike destroyed two ISIL fighting positions.
-- Near Tal Afar, a strike suppressed an ISIL rocket position.
Additionally, a strike in Iraq from Feb. 7 was not included on the Feb. 8 strike release:
-- Near Ramadi, a strike struck a large ISIL tactical unit and destroyed three ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL heavy machine gun, and an ISIL boat.
Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is a strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.
Barack just keeps bombing.
Nothing but bombing.
Today, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared, "It is important to understand that while airstrike operations can be very useful to achieve short-term military and territorial gains, they do not on their own achieve long-term stability for local communities."
Trudeau was quoted by Susana Mas (CBC News) who reports that he has announced February 22nd as the day "Canada will cease all coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria."
Merrit Kennedy (NPR) adds:
Canadian troops will now "focus on training and advising local security forces to take their fight directly to ISIL," according to a government statement.
Canada says it will still assist with aerial refueling and surveillance activities associated with the airstrikes.
At his Twitter feed, Trudeau went over the basics:
Meanwhile, Barack's been dropping bombs on Iraq in the latest wave of the never ending Iraq War -- and Barack's been doing that since August 2014.
If you're not getting what a failure Barack's plan or 'plan' has been, today the US State Dept presented the USAID request for fiscal year 2017.
And?
They trumpeted the following:
Strengthen reforms in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with $1.45 billion to sustain gains made in these strategically important countries, from improving the performance and legitimacy of the Afghan government to promoting a stable, secure and prosperous Pakistan that counters violent extremism. The budget will also support work to continue strengthening each country’s economy, and advance ambitious reforms in a variety of sectors, including energy, agriculture, education and health.
Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Where's Iraq?
There are no reforms to strengthen in Iraq.
Sure, in June 2014, Barack declared the only solution to Iraq's various crises was a political solution. But State's pretended it's the Defense Dept and John Kerry, Secretary of State, has made a spectacle of himself on the international stage and is little more than a laughable stooge these days.
As we've noted before, he's gone around pressing foreign governments to send troops into Iraq instead of working on diplomacy and fostering a better government in Iraq.
His efforts with other countries?
They're a bit of bust.
And that's why Barack's contemplating putting even more US "boots on the ground."
And it's why, at NEW ZEALAND's SCOOP, Gordon Campbell notes the reality of what the US is attempting to force others into doing:
Foreign news services are being more forthcoming about what those “next 12 months” will entail – essentially, the defence ministers will be under US pressure to increase their “training” role preparatory to an assault on the city of Mosul in northern Iraq:
US officials – who have been pushing Iraq to launch an assault on Mosul following recent successes including the recapture of the city of Ramadi – have repeatedly highlighted the need to increase the number of Western trainers in Iraq. The question is expected to be taken up during a February 11 meeting of coalition defence ministers.
A failure. That's what Barack's 'plan' has been. THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER reports today that Ramadi and its surrounding areas are finally liberated. Susannah George (ASSOCIATED PRESS) words it this way, "Iraqi government forces have regained full control of Ramadi after pushing Islamic State group fighters out of the city's outskirts, according to Iraqi security forces and the U.S.-led coalition. The announcement, more than a month after Ramadi was first declared liberated in December, underscores the slow nature of Iraqi ground operations despite heavy backing from U.S.-led coalition airstrikes."
"Ramadi is liberated, or it is if you change the meaning and definition of liberated, even in congratulations Secretary of State John Kerry notes that Ramadi is not liberated, none of the bombings address the root causes of the Islamic State, and much more." That's from the December 28, 2015 snapshot -- as is the following:
Ramadi, they say, is liberated.
As we noted this morning, any announcement of Ramadi being liberated should have come from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Instead, it came from the military underscoring how precarious Haider's position actually is. (It was only weeks ago that US senators, in a public hearing, were wondering how much longer Haider would be able to hold on.)
Six hours after the military announced 'liberation,' someone thought to toss Haider before the cameras.
Stephen Kalin and Maher Chmaytelli (REUTERS) report that he declared Ramadi liberated and insisted they would be tackling Mosul in the near future.
That was December, this is February. Not only is Ramadi only now liberated but Mosul's still not tackled. Guess "near future" means something other than "near future."
Barack's 'plan' has only focused on bombing the Islamic State (sometimes hitting them, sometimes hitting civilians) and on (yet again) training Iraqi forces. Alice Fordham (NPR) points out, "But ISIS is just one of many groups trying to carve out power for itself in a country where the central government is looking ever weaker."
And nothing's being done to address the persecution of the Sunnis -- the very thing that fueled the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq. Former European Parliament Struan Stevenson writes at Scotland's THE HERALD:
The city of Ramadi in central Iraq was captured by so-called Islamic State (IS) in May last year. It was a city of more than one million, mostly Sunni, people. Last month, most of the city was recaptured by the Iraqi military, with the assistance of Shi’ia militias, funded and led by commanders from the Iranian Quds Force, a listed terrorist organisation.
Nine months under the control of [the Islamic State] was devastating enough for
Ramadi but the final onslaught during the battle for its recapture has
seen virtually every building in the city destroyed; only a handful of
women, children and elderly men remain. Some estimates state that the
population numbers less than 1,000. The ruthless Shi’ia militias have
waged a genocidal campaign against the Sunni population, torturing,
burning and butchering at will. Thousands of civilians have been killed.
The men of Ramadi between the ages of 14 and 70 have simply
disappeared. Some say they are being held in secret prisons; others
claim they have been murdered.
It's a shame nothing's been done to address issues like that.
It's more than a shame, it's a crime -- and falls under the legal definition of War Crimes.
Moving over to one specific War Criminal, Hillary Clinton.
Cranky Clinton is yet again having trouble sealing the deal when it comes to garnering the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
This go round, she's competing against Senator Bernie Sanders.
Today, they faced off in the first primary the United States holds: New Hampshire.
While 2008 saw New Hampshire delivering Hillary a solid win and elevating her then-troubled campaign, today New Hampshire went to Bernie Sanders.
David Sirota (IBT) offers his take on the night which includes:
Just as notable, New Hampshire Democratic voters revealed a party that appears to have become more left-leaning than ever. According to the New York Times , a full “two-thirds of voters in the Democratic primary said that they are liberal, up from 56 percent who said the same in 2008, the last time there was a contested Democratic primary.” Clinton tried to appeal to more centrist Democrats by, for instance, dismissing Sanders’ push for a single-payer Medicare-for-all health care system, but two-thirds of the increasingly liberal Democratic electorate told exit pollsters that they support such a system.
Sanders’ laser-like focus on populist economics and confrontational anti-Wall Street themes resonated with Democratic voters who said the top two issues they were concerned about were inequality and the state of the economy — a shift by a party that during Bill Clinton's administration often elected more corporate-friendly candidates who downplayed inequality and promoted a so-called “third way” of cooperation with the financial sector.
And we'll note this Tweet which reflects the mood of many:
Hillary? The defeated rush to insist, "I still love New Hampshire."
Aaaawwwww.
Such heartfelt emotions.
But not everyone was as underwhelmed by Hillary's speech . . .
iraq
npr
Today, the US government continued its bombing of Iraq in US President Barack Obama's efforts to bring peace to Iraq. The US Defense Dept claimed/bragged/announced:
Strikes in Iraq
Coalition forces used rocket artillery and attack, fighter, and remotely piloted aircraft to conduct 18 strikes in Iraq, coordinated with and in support of Iraq’s government:
-- Near Baghdadi, seven strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and three ISIL staging areas, denied ISIL access to terrain, and destroyed two ISIL rockets, an ISIL weapons cache, an ISIL front-end loader, an ISIL heavy machine gun, and an ISIL vehicle.
-- Near Huwayjah, a strike struck an ISIL tactical unit.
-- Near Fallujah, a strike destroyed an ISIL-used bridge.
-- Near Mosul, two strikes struck an ISIL tactical unit and destroyed five ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL mortar tube, and an ISIL vehicle.
-- Near Qayyarah, two strikes struck an ISIL logistics facility and destroyed four ISIL fighting positions.
-- Near Ramadi, three strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units, denied ISIL access to terrain, and destroyed three ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL staging area, and two ISIL boats.
-- Near Sultan Abdallah, a strike destroyed two ISIL fighting positions.
-- Near Tal Afar, a strike suppressed an ISIL rocket position.
Additionally, a strike in Iraq from Feb. 7 was not included on the Feb. 8 strike release:
-- Near Ramadi, a strike struck a large ISIL tactical unit and destroyed three ISIL fighting positions, an ISIL heavy machine gun, and an ISIL boat.
Task force officials define a strike as one or more kinetic events that occur in roughly the same geographic location to produce a single, sometimes cumulative, effect. Therefore, officials explained, a single aircraft delivering a single weapon against a lone ISIL vehicle is a strike, but so is multiple aircraft delivering dozens of weapons against buildings, vehicles and weapon systems in a compound, for example, having the cumulative effect of making those targets harder or impossible for ISIL to use. Accordingly, officials said, they do not report the number or type of aircraft employed in a strike, the number of munitions dropped in each strike, or the number of individual munition impact points against a target.
Barack just keeps bombing.
Nothing but bombing.
Today, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared, "It is important to understand that while airstrike operations can be very useful to achieve short-term military and territorial gains, they do not on their own achieve long-term stability for local communities."
Trudeau was quoted by Susana Mas (CBC News) who reports that he has announced February 22nd as the day "Canada will cease all coalition airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria."
Merrit Kennedy (NPR) adds:
Canadian troops will now "focus on training and advising local security forces to take their fight directly to ISIL," according to a government statement.
Canada says it will still assist with aerial refueling and surveillance activities associated with the airstrikes.
At his Twitter feed, Trudeau went over the basics:
We’ll also contribute $270 million to help provide basic social
services in countries that have accepted large numbers of refugees.
Nous verserons aussi 270 millions $ pour offrir des services sociaux
de base dans les pays qui ont accueilli beaucoup de réfugiés.
Our plan commits $840m over three years in humanitarian support to those hit hardest by the conflict: http://bit.ly/1Phdfpe
Notre plan affecte 840 m$ sur 3 ans en soutien humanitaire pour les gens les plus durement touchés par le conflit : http://bit.ly/1W7jyh4
Canada’s aerial refuelling and surveillance operations will continue. CF-18 airstrikes will cease no later than February 22.
Les opérations canadiennes de surveillance et de ravitaillement
aériens continuent. Les frappes des CF 18 cesseront dès le 22 février.
Canada will triple the size of its train, advise and assist mission to help Iraqi security forces plan and execute operations.
Le Canada triplera la taille de sa mission pour aider les forces de
sécurité irakiennes à planifier et à exécuter leurs opérations.
Our plan in Iraq & Syria increases the number of Canadian personnel supporting coalition members fighting against ISIL.
Notre plan pour l’Irak et la Syrie augmente l’effectif canadien qui soutient la lutte des membres de la coalition contre l’EIIL.
Our efforts will better reflect what Canada is all about: Defending
our interests and freedoms with our allies, and helping those in need.
Nos efforts reflèteront mieux l’intention du Canada : défendre nos
intérêts et libertés avec nos alliés et aider ceux qui en ont besoin.
Meanwhile, Barack's been dropping bombs on Iraq in the latest wave of the never ending Iraq War -- and Barack's been doing that since August 2014.
If you're not getting what a failure Barack's plan or 'plan' has been, today the US State Dept presented the USAID request for fiscal year 2017.
And?
They trumpeted the following:
Strengthen reforms in Afghanistan and Pakistan, with $1.45 billion to sustain gains made in these strategically important countries, from improving the performance and legitimacy of the Afghan government to promoting a stable, secure and prosperous Pakistan that counters violent extremism. The budget will also support work to continue strengthening each country’s economy, and advance ambitious reforms in a variety of sectors, including energy, agriculture, education and health.
Afghanistan and Pakistan?
Where's Iraq?
There are no reforms to strengthen in Iraq.
Sure, in June 2014, Barack declared the only solution to Iraq's various crises was a political solution. But State's pretended it's the Defense Dept and John Kerry, Secretary of State, has made a spectacle of himself on the international stage and is little more than a laughable stooge these days.
As we've noted before, he's gone around pressing foreign governments to send troops into Iraq instead of working on diplomacy and fostering a better government in Iraq.
His efforts with other countries?
They're a bit of bust.
And that's why Barack's contemplating putting even more US "boots on the ground."
And it's why, at NEW ZEALAND's SCOOP, Gordon Campbell notes the reality of what the US is attempting to force others into doing:
Foreign news services are being more forthcoming about what those “next 12 months” will entail – essentially, the defence ministers will be under US pressure to increase their “training” role preparatory to an assault on the city of Mosul in northern Iraq:
US officials – who have been pushing Iraq to launch an assault on Mosul following recent successes including the recapture of the city of Ramadi – have repeatedly highlighted the need to increase the number of Western trainers in Iraq. The question is expected to be taken up during a February 11 meeting of coalition defence ministers.
A failure. That's what Barack's 'plan' has been. THE NATIONAL NEWSPAPER reports today that Ramadi and its surrounding areas are finally liberated. Susannah George (ASSOCIATED PRESS) words it this way, "Iraqi government forces have regained full control of Ramadi after pushing Islamic State group fighters out of the city's outskirts, according to Iraqi security forces and the U.S.-led coalition. The announcement, more than a month after Ramadi was first declared liberated in December, underscores the slow nature of Iraqi ground operations despite heavy backing from U.S.-led coalition airstrikes."
"Ramadi is liberated, or it is if you change the meaning and definition of liberated, even in congratulations Secretary of State John Kerry notes that Ramadi is not liberated, none of the bombings address the root causes of the Islamic State, and much more." That's from the December 28, 2015 snapshot -- as is the following:
Ramadi, they say, is liberated.
As we noted this morning, any announcement of Ramadi being liberated should have come from Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Instead, it came from the military underscoring how precarious Haider's position actually is. (It was only weeks ago that US senators, in a public hearing, were wondering how much longer Haider would be able to hold on.)
Six hours after the military announced 'liberation,' someone thought to toss Haider before the cameras.
Stephen Kalin and Maher Chmaytelli (REUTERS) report that he declared Ramadi liberated and insisted they would be tackling Mosul in the near future.
That was December, this is February. Not only is Ramadi only now liberated but Mosul's still not tackled. Guess "near future" means something other than "near future."
Barack's 'plan' has only focused on bombing the Islamic State (sometimes hitting them, sometimes hitting civilians) and on (yet again) training Iraqi forces. Alice Fordham (NPR) points out, "But ISIS is just one of many groups trying to carve out power for itself in a country where the central government is looking ever weaker."
And nothing's being done to address the persecution of the Sunnis -- the very thing that fueled the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq. Former European Parliament Struan Stevenson writes at Scotland's THE HERALD:
The city of Ramadi in central Iraq was captured by so-called Islamic State (IS) in May last year. It was a city of more than one million, mostly Sunni, people. Last month, most of the city was recaptured by the Iraqi military, with the assistance of Shi’ia militias, funded and led by commanders from the Iranian Quds Force, a listed terrorist organisation.
Shocking reports have emerged of the organised slaughter and execution
of Sunni citizens in Diyala Province and the blowing up of Sunni
mosques in the town of Meqhdadiya. Regrettably, the government of Iraq
and the US administration have been silent in the face of these
atrocities perpetrated by the militias affiliated to Iran who operate
under the leadership of Hadi al-Ameri, commander of the terrorist-listed
Badr Organisation. Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, has faced
a humiliating climb-down over his efforts to secure a nuclear weapon.
Iran’s economy was crumbling under the combined weight of international
sanctions and the collapsing oil price, forcing it to seek a deal with
the West. In a bid to buttress his beleaguered regime, Khamenei is
trying to extend Iran’s influence in the Middle East. His efforts to
shore up the gore-encrusted regime of Bashar al-Assad have fuelled the
civil war in Syria for the past five years, creating the perfect
environment for IS to exploit and expand. Khamenei, in turn, uses IS as
his excuse to provide money, men and material to bolster the
scorched-earth campaign by the Shi’ia militias in neighbouring Iraq.
Western silence on this carnage has simply contributed to the spiralling
sectarian war that threatens to tear Iraq apart.
It's a shame nothing's been done to address issues like that.
It's more than a shame, it's a crime -- and falls under the legal definition of War Crimes.
Moving over to one specific War Criminal, Hillary Clinton.
Cranky Clinton is yet again having trouble sealing the deal when it comes to garnering the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
This go round, she's competing against Senator Bernie Sanders.
Today, they faced off in the first primary the United States holds: New Hampshire.
While 2008 saw New Hampshire delivering Hillary a solid win and elevating her then-troubled campaign, today New Hampshire went to Bernie Sanders.
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@BernieSanders won the#NHPrimary tonight in the largest margin in the history of the American Democratic party!
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David Sirota (IBT) offers his take on the night which includes:
Just as notable, New Hampshire Democratic voters revealed a party that appears to have become more left-leaning than ever. According to the New York Times , a full “two-thirds of voters in the Democratic primary said that they are liberal, up from 56 percent who said the same in 2008, the last time there was a contested Democratic primary.” Clinton tried to appeal to more centrist Democrats by, for instance, dismissing Sanders’ push for a single-payer Medicare-for-all health care system, but two-thirds of the increasingly liberal Democratic electorate told exit pollsters that they support such a system.
Sanders’ laser-like focus on populist economics and confrontational anti-Wall Street themes resonated with Democratic voters who said the top two issues they were concerned about were inequality and the state of the economy — a shift by a party that during Bill Clinton's administration often elected more corporate-friendly candidates who downplayed inequality and promoted a so-called “third way” of cooperation with the financial sector.
And we'll note this Tweet which reflects the mood of many:
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@milly4red@HillaryClinton yes, she gets shape shifting done better than anyone.
Cassandra Fairbanks
Hillary? The defeated rush to insist, "I still love New Hampshire."
Aaaawwwww.
Such heartfelt emotions.
But not everyone was as underwhelmed by Hillary's speech . . .
Everyone's saying @HillaryClinton's #NHPrimary concession speech was great. Can't wait to hear the one when she concedes the nomination.
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